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Patented Apr. 12, 1892.

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MARIE HAENDLER, or NEN YORK, N.

MANUFACTURE OF WIRE ORNAMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 472,758, dated April 12, 1892.

Application filed March 2, 189% Serial No. 428,492. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARIE HAENDLER, a citizen of the German Empire, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Ornaments, of which the following is a specifica tion.

My invention has reference to the manufacture of ornaments from wire and especially to articles of jewelry, ladies dress and hair trimmings, and the like; and it has for its objects to expedite the process of manufac-' cure, to dispense with the use of solder, and to produce a better artistic effect, while at the same time the article itself is rendered very durable.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1, 2, and 3 illustrate the several steps in the procedure when forming an artificial leaf. Fig. 4 is a side view of the finished article.

Figs. 5 and 6 represent different forms of or- Figs. 7,8, and 9 are debeing preferably first spirally coiled, Fig. 9,

to produce a more natural effect. One end of a wire a is secured to the stem either just above or below the center I) by coiling or twisting it several times about the stem. Then the wire is carried to the opposite end of the center and twisted or coiled once about the stem at this point. Then it is carried back again to the opposite side and again twisted or coiled once about. the stem, and so on in alternate semi-convolutions until the desired dimensions and form are obtained for the blade of the leaf. The end of the wire is finally wound about the stem, as at c, to secure said wire and to give an ornamental appearance to this part of the stem, which practically forms the visible portion (petiole) of the wire a. The part a. of the stem a projecting beyond the upper end of the leaf is bent backward and downward close to the stem to secure the convolutions at this end. The wire employed for the stem at is made sufficiently heavy to give rigidity to the whole. The wire for the blade of the leaf is preferably made of two strands twisted t0- gether. The wires for the blade and center may be made of any suitable flexible material, such as gold, silver, or a flexible wire plated with the same, orany combination of the same for obtaining contrasting colors. As shown in Fig.5, several such leaves may be united to form a branch with leaves by placing the stems together and securing the same by a binding-wire d, or, as shown in the same figure, they may be joined to form a flower e, the disk of the latter being produced by a wire f, having several windings of spirally-coiled wire g thereon, which is first bent U-shaped and then over, as best seen in Fig. 6, its two limbs being secured together with the stems of the petals. By bendingthe petals upwardly and inwardly abud h is formed, Fig. 6. his evident that the centers 1) may be omitted, if so desired.

WVhatIclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The process of manufacturing ornaments 1 scribed, and twisting the same about the stem at each semi-convolution, bending over the projecting portion of the stem at the top of the blade, and finally winding the wire about a portion of the stem below the blade, substantially as described.

8. A wire ornament consisting of a central stem and a wire extending in spiral lines about the same as a center and twisted about the said stem at each semi-convolution, substantially as described.

4. An artificial leaf or petal consisting of a stem, acenter composed of Wire wound about my invention I have signed my name, in pressaid stem, and "a wireextending in spiral lines sence "of two Witnessesthis 8th day of Feb- IO about the stem as a center and twisted about ruary, 1892. the stem at each semi-convolution, said stem 5 being bent over toward the back at one end and the Wire coiled about the opposite end of Witnesses: the stem, substantially as described. z JOSEPH ELIAS,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as A. FABER DU 'FAUR, Jr.

MARIE I-IAENDLER; 

